Weekend Election Disaster
That’s a tough one.
After years of electoral gains by bold, right-wing candidates at the local level, conservative Texans were left disappointed while Democrats did victory laps online just minutes after election results started rolling in Saturday night, and many people are saying they think they know what tipped the scale in favor of Democrats this year.
In cities across Texas, leftists either managed to gain seats or hold off challengers in races ranging from school board to city council.
Collin County
The Collin County Democrat Party celebrated wins across the area where even Plano, normally a relative Republican stronghold, faced losses to Democrats.
Together both True Texas Project and Plano Area Democrats endorsed Vidal Quintanilla against Republican candidate Hayden Padgett.
Padgett would go on to lose his race by around 1,500 votes.
Tarrant County
Tarrant County GOP endorsed candidates would go on to win only 9 out of the 23 races they were involved in. In Republican Rep. David Cook’s backyard of Mansfield, TX, where Allen West himself came out to rally the troops, the GOP-endorsed candidates lost in all 5 races. No doubt West gave a good speech, but many people are saying the vibes at the polls across Texas were just not good. Right-wingers were aimless and beaten down, and the opposition was having fun.
Many people were asking why Tarrant County, the largest red county in America, performed so poorly. Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French said that the losses were attributed to low turnout, and Republicans not caring about local elections.
The Tarrant County Democratic Party did a victory lap claiming credit for the GOP losses.
Many people are saying the school choice agenda not only cost Texas taxpayers $1 billion, but it has actually corrupted good vibes built by the local grassroots over the last 5 years, and finally it has cost them in local elections.
At the time of writing, the school choice situation currently sits as a “bait and switch.” Two bills were introduced as if they went together—it even had a fancy name, the Texas Two-Step—one for school choice vouchers, and one as a money bomb to dramatically increase public school funding.
This seemed like a brilliant plan, but lo and behold, the school choice scam has been signed into law, and the money bomb is curiously AWOL. This may change in the coming weeks, but it seemed that voters caught on to this scam in the age of social media.
House Bill 2 (HB 2), authored by State Rep. Brad Buckley (R-Salado), is part of what Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) has dubbed the “Texas Two Step”—a dual-track legislative effort to increase public school funding while also introducing a universal school choice program (HB 3). Burrows has described these two bills as “historic,” claiming that “the Texas House has the votes to get it done.”
Many people are blaming the school choice debacle as the reason for GOP-backed candidates losing en masse across Texas. One need look no further than the Texas GOP platform for prima facie evidence that a scam is afoot, and even the most low-information voters could see it.
The defense for school choice seems to be that it is “in the Party platform.” Here is what the Texas GOP platform says about school choice:
School Choice: We support further empowering all Texas families to choose from public, private, charter, or homeschool options for their children's education and funding which shall follow the student with no strings attached. We oppose regulations on homeschooling or the curriculum of private or religious schools and believe a constitutional amendment should be adopted accordingly. In lieu of funding, citizens may use property tax exemptions.
We asked Grok, Elon Musk’s premier AI service, to analyze SB 2’s “school choice” and asked it to compare it to the Republican Party Platform, and to score the new law on how closely it matched the platform. It provided the following answer:
So the new law aligned with the platform by 42.7% for 1% of students, but when you weigh the scoring across all students, what was passed into law only fulfilled 0.41% of what the GOP platform laid out.
This explains the bad vibes in voting center parking lots across Texas, according to artificial intelligence, which is definitely smarter than politicians at this point.
The vibes were so bad that not even the endorsement of a world champion jerk-off racer could save the seats conservatives fought so hard for.
The school voucher stuff shows that too many Republicans don't actually care about constituents.
Many Texans tried to warn these lawmakers. Acting like your campaign slogan & listening to the voters who actually helped you get where you are isn't rocket science.
The November 2026 election will be the true test. Will voters have short memories? Usually.